Three-month-old baby has baby

Three-month-old baby has baby

JAKARTA (JP): Doctors in the East Java town of Kediri have
successfully removed a fetus from a three-month-old female baby,
a press report said yesterday.

Initially, doctors in the Baptis Hospital had thought that
Gita Novia Rahma's stomach had progressively swelled because of a
tumor until they performed surgery last week.

The fetus was dead and Gita, a daughter of cigarette factory
workers, remained under medical treatment at the hospital on
Saturday, Kompas daily reported.

Before the surgery, Gita weighed 5.8 kilograms. But her weight
was recorded as being only 3.8 kilograms after the operation. The
fetus weighted one kilogram.

The hospital's director, Sukoyo Suwandini, said Saturday that
the fetus was in fact Gita's twin sister who "failed to grow
properly".

He said the case was nothing new in the medical world. Gita's
case was the third Baptis Hospital had handled over the past two
decades, he added.

Gita's parents said her stomach had swollen since birth and
they only sought medical attention after it grew out of
proportion. (pan)